Cross-country comparative research of party choice is hindered enormously by the nature of
the dependent variable: a nominal variable with a different set of choice options in each …

In this paper we argue that theories of party choice are implicitly not about choice, but about
electoral preferences or utilities. This distinction is not trivial, as individual choice can be …

As a dependent variable, party choice did not lend itself to analysis by means of powerful
multivariate methods until the coming of discrete-choice models, most notably conditional …

Spatial models of electoral competition are based on the central idea that voting choices are
influenced by the relative issue positions of voters and parties. In recent years, significant …

In this book voter behavior is analyzed from an economist's point of view. The influence of an
economy on voter behavior is investigated and this behavior is analyzed in the perspective …

Most conventional accounts of voting behaviour fit single models to the entire electorate,
implicitly assuming that all voters respond to the same sets of influences, and do so in …

96 Sauger et al. on the other. These debates originate in the discrepancies between formal
models predicting the number of 'viable'candidates (depending on the magnitude of …

Despite the rich and growing body of research addressing how turnout and party choice
depend on the institutional context, far less is known about the impact of the political …

Using a theoretical framework in which voters' choicesare the result of utility maximisation
decisions, andin which the variation of utility functions acrossindividuals is partly …

Electoral systems in which voters can cast preference votes for individual candidates within
a party list are increasingly popular. To the best of our knowledge, there is no research on …